exactly to. start the revolution that would bring down hosni mubarak they're on the streets again protesting just as fiercely against the islamist regime that replaced the toppled president. decorated cia veteran and the man who first confirmed america's torture of detainees gets over his leaks and explains why it's him and not the truth take the full. and the korean peninsula to the brink of war with pyongyang to attack what it called. joins in with fresh international restrictions. and also reporting the russian flight where it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists were to win a boost up business from starting

a scrap in the skies even threatening to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing. around the world online on screen one from the new center here in moscow this is r t with the twenty four hours a day over one hundred people have reportedly been injured across egypt now as hundreds of thousands rally on the second anniversary of the start of the country's revolution people on how to celebrate their venting anger against the new government which came to power following the uprising that toppled the longtime leadership of hosni mubarak cora based reporter bel true has the latest. the scenes here of really become quite chaotic across the country as the january twenty five anniversary rallies turn violent we've heard dozens of industry injuries across the country with clashes happening in xandra sayit suicide hotline of course cairo in

addition there's been reports that the freedom and justice party headquarters which is the political wing of the muslim brotherhood has been attacked and it's men they . are here in downtown cairo really stings the volleys of tear gas coming over to my left here as a clashes between protesters and security forces really escalating i've just been on top a square where i witnessed it quite a violent attack on a woman by four groups a sex attack on her she was stripped and beaten and taken away by ambulance another one talking apparently on a different side of the square people believe this is people coming to this crisis trying to stop protesters from protesting against the president definitely we're going to witness these scenes go on into the night sky really disappointed into violence two years ago and two hundred twenty five people came to this street to have enough of the injustice of the hosni mubarak regime today people say that back here because they see no change just speaking to people today on top of their minds

was the economy they said the situation is unbearable definitely according to january statistics at least a quarter of the population now under the poverty line of course the constitution itself is a sticking point for people saying dominate is drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly and does not represent gyptian these are really a key point is that people saying is the reason why they're here protesting against the president's i calling to change. and geo political analyst william angles says that the government in egypt is more concerned with keeping its grip on power than having a stable economy. well the problem is this is a minority of the muslim brotherhood it's the best organized force in the country after the toppling. but the and it's backed by it by what action by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing an islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this show real agenda

this islamization of creating this this earth a state which de facto is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime or totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real functioning know what comedy so that. probably needs it right now a terror attack alarm in libya's second largest city three european governments call for the immediate evacuation of their citizens and then fears the city could soon be ripped apart by attacks more for you in just a few minutes from now here in r.t. . and first an ex cia veteran who oversaw the capture of his third in command has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for leaking classified intelligence john kerry i could was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program later revealing the name of an alleged torture a grand time of day what is going to come reports on his predicament. the cia

veteran the former chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan john kiriakou will spend thirty months in prison for leaking the identity of an agent but before he was prosecuted mr keating after had been actively speaking out against torture and now he and his supporters believe that he was prosecuted for coming clean over torture practices in the cia it started with an investigation into how military defense attorneys at guantanamo bay obtained the names and photographs of cia personnel authorities eventually tracked one name back to a reporter who had spoken to mr. rather than risk a far longer prison term and because he could no longer afford his legal fees and stick it out when a cobra agreed to plead guilty to one of the five charges against him violating the intelligence identities protection act by emailing the name of a covert cia officer to a freelance reporter who never even published it there's something very disturbing about this case had john actually engaged in torture we wouldn't be in any trouble

at all he never even would have been investigated just as he talked about torture with reporters he was going to prison the fact of the matter is that the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices which means nobody can be prosecuted for human rights violations that were systematic of systematically committed a crime. right here is what mr get out will says about that i never tortured anybody but i'm getting to prison while the torture is in the lawyers people who are rude and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the tapes will never sees justice and that's the saddest part of the story. this is an inspiration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined and while protecting those who have committed preacher who have ordered torture behind this wall of classification contrary to popular belief president obama didn't stop the united states and torturing to just stop it from torturing on his watch through an

executive order which means that the us could be on another executive order away from some other president or vice president deciding to torture again. a thirty month sentence is being talked about as part of john cutting out his plea deal but the judge could still refuse to settle for that meaning he could potentially face far greater jail time for the accusations former cia officer ray mcgovern believes them to be political. he's being punished out of range hypocrisy. look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly against torture as being not worthy of the united states and not efficient not a way to get information what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess confess to what you first for the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq confess to the existence of operational ties between al qaeda and saddam

hussein it was all a crock they had to make this stuff but you can't get real flyable information from torture but you know what torture works beautifully if you want unreliable information and so the kind you do not only tired not only weapons of mass destruction but ties between iraq and al-qaeda and it was a masterful propaganda performance on the part of the united states on the part of the u.k. prime minister a vital anti terror weapon or a deadly threat to civilians key u.n. investigators look into whether the use of drone strikes mainly by the u.s. could amount to war crimes that's coming away very shortly this hour on r.t. also. the world isn't shaken seek a solution to the global financial abyss at the economic forum on millions of dollars are being spent on making methane in the glitzy ski resort comfortable.

alcohol and there are planes is often a dangerous mix and so it proved for one high rolling russian businessman he's hit the headlines after a booze fuelled brawl at thirty thousand feet he got his kind of tells the tale of modeling madness. it started out as an ordinary flights to one of the popular holiday destinations for many russians egypt so you can imagine the passengers are sitting there in their seats visualizing how they're going to be sunbathing just in a couple of hours but then suddenly the resent is interrupted by one very troubled past and. this man there we go appears to have had a little bit too much visualisation if you know what i mean started smoking in a laboratory then he attacked one of the passengers so the flight attendant tried stopping him he started attacking the flight attendant and he announced that he's a former member of the swat team he's also said that he was a member of the deputy of the city duma a businessman all these things in one he was actually warned that his actions could be taken as

a hijacking of the plane he said he didn't care if you threaten that he was going to kill all the passengers on the plane he said that he could do it with just his two fingers and then he said that he was going to try to land the plane himself on a water so the plane did land and. the staff staff passed him over to a local police in egypt but he was traveling with his wife and a three year old daughter who he held up and when he was detained the police well basically released him just in a matter of minutes without actually pressing any charges but the good thing the police in russia are now waiting for him to come back since they do have this video they do have reports from all the witnesses so the story's not over yet but this does bring us to the question of how much alcohol should be given to passengers because this is far from the only case of flights erupting on board of flights and in some cases the passengers duty you have to take it in their own hands to calm the passengers down like the one incident when the passengers were also with the passenger was also quite aggressive they had to duct tape the guy to his seat he

spent the entire transatlantic flight from iceland to the states like that but it's not always as bad sometimes good things happen like this bill on board a flight i don't know if alcohol was involved in this case but i guess if it was it wouldn't be that bad if every time it happened like that. another standoff but this time on the ground russian lawmakers move closer to possible and to get a promotion though while activists both for and against scuffle outside parliament amid arguments that the motion is an attack on freedom is details coming our way in just a few minutes from now. both korea is warning of war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n. sanctions they also make the marks the third day of the rhetoric with pyongyang previously evolving more nuclear ballistic tests james corbet editor of

a japan based news website says the region is on the brink. join you is an absolute wildcard in this whole situation and it really is just an irrational actor in the whole scene there it's been years now of carrots and sticks and neither of them seem to have any effect there seems to be periods of relative quiet and then periods of threats and violence threats of violence and so far that it's failed to materialize into into very much you know on the korean peninsula but of course it's always possible that some sort of some incident could come out of this i don't think anyone even the north koreans really want to see that but i think it is a way of keeping focus on the region and keeping people coming back to the table with north korea but i don't think north korea is ultimately going to be the actor that will have to be involved for a solution to this so i think this is going to have to involve china at some point because they are the ones that are keeping north korea on an economic leash and a lifeline or a new. tough economic times are forcing people in britain to think outside the box

when it comes to making ends meet but one of britain's increasingly that is far from savory later this hour to get help but a tree moneylenders a dragon the u.k.'s poorest and most vulnerable into a web of debt stay with us for that report coming up after the break. thank. you do we speak your language anybody will or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries in spanish more matches to you

breaking news a little tonnage of angola's keep these stories here. for you here. to try to alter the spanish find out more visit i too am a dud. i . he's continues now here naughty dutch british and german authorities have called on net citizens to evacuate immediately from libya's second largest city benghazi its feet it could soon be the target of an attack seven nights of the one in

neighboring algeria that resulted in dozens of hostage deaths geopolitical analysts patrick headings and thinks that the shocks from the libyan revolution will spread throughout the region pretty is natural to to have that fear we've had a number of. serious incidents in libya and also in neighboring algeria recently so yes it would definitely be off limits for foreigners the destabilization we see right now is a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of could off be and they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries there are rumors that were floating around recently that acts could off the chemical weapons were being shipped over to syria and were going to be used to blame assad. the counterterrorism effort by the us is on the the

microscope the un has launched an inquiry into the legality of using drones worldwide investigation comes amid rising concern the flurry of which dubbed terrorist strikes has done little to protect civilians rights activists suggest that in pakistan alone over a quarter of those killed by cia drone attacks innocent bystanders what is in the study tracking the reports. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years there are going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen again to stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by

a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report finally revealed in the months to come well is what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and up killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children work. hilde and out we saw

a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the un human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that it's going to group of being constructed in the heart of moscow's business district goes up in flames at these numbers injured and hundreds from the building of the fire broke out around the twenty eighth floor at online for more pictures and reaction. and being online is essential for german media now is a call that demands one media company pays compensation for not providing internet services but luckily we've got a website where you can find more on that story and it is on. the

plight of the global economy fueled by europe's long running debt woes all of this is being poured over at this year's financial forum at the flash ski resort of davos just how much money is being spent to organize the gathering which is filled on the side with swish parties and leverage dinners. has cleared this up for us. here in davos there's lots of rich powerful people swarming around in design a system pretty much telling the average citizen of the world that they need to be reigning in their spending while they themselves sit expensive champagne and dine on school rummy kind of days which to me seems are all the way to aid indeed you've also got companies here that are laying people off in the thousands pepsi for example they are here latest lady of will an eight thousand people and you can fairminded cost about two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars for a ticket to the davos economic four we've also got citi group as well and they too have laid off more than eleven thousand it just gives you an idea of what companies

are spending their money on and all they spend you know on the right things we've also got e.c.v. president mario did ok essentially putting his fellow leaders on the spot because he says that the economic situation in europe is better the wall to wall that's pretty iconic when you consider the problem we've got protests ongoing increased banks unemployment high historical highs of sixty percent that really sent shivers down the spines really in davos yesterday prices just posted it is most crazy it is going to sound too good it until ready to other and oldest talk about money and how much davos is going to cost we're talking one hundred eighty five made it of dollars that's going to be spent here the davos forum which described by the along boris johnson as a consideration of egos involved in o'jays of our today show and i know sometimes he can be quite outlasts but in this is such an eye what i think i agree with boris . artie's katie pilbeam there she is reporting from devon throughout the day and as

you mentioned the british economy soon may find itself in the doldrums official figures have shown that g.d.p. shrank more than expected recently in the country's on the verge of a triple dip recession this is raise fears that the u.k. aaa rating could be downgraded well not little but i spoke with the lowly he's director of the institute of economic affairs in london and he believes the coalition governments shortsightedness is to blame well certainly what the coalition government here in the u.k. are doing isn't working if the aim is to produce growth rates or two or three percent and indeed the government's independent forecasters suggested two years ago that we would be experiencing those sort of levels and growth of the u.k. economy about now i'm afraid that was turned out. but let's be clear about this austerity target that you saw a lot does saying that the u.k. government has persuaded itself and most of the media and all of their political

opponents that there is some savage program of spending cuts being undertaken in the united kingdom that's a long way from the truth when you actually look at the numbers rather than the political rhetoric tough times are pushing people in the u.k. to make hard decisions and more and more families are taking out so-called payday loans with huge interest rates to put money in their pockets and r.t. sarah ferguson looks at what's pushing people to turn to these companies. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days the northeast in particular has seen a big increase recently in the number of the payday loans there are popping up on the high street is that here in this part of the sunblock you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but right next door to. this area is one of

the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. but working providing death advice days what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat of course it will continue on and then we're going. to try and pay off a period. saw the most try one go first go on two quick quid i want to hear you clear and it's just a never ending cycle we want to be one of the representatives the leading payday loan provided why the industry seems to be lending irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make

the best assessment of somebodies affordability that these areas of the united kingdom and some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up in secondary high streets where the brakes are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. for new or avoid them like the plague so r.t. reporting from. iraq now police have opened fire on sunni protesters in fallujah sixty kilometers north of the capital leaving seven civilians dead and dozens injured the shootings happened after worshippers came out of friday for two

soldiers were later killed by unidentified gunmen more could be related attacks the curfew has been imposed on the city and the government has said it will launch an investigation is the most violent incident in iraq since really started protesting against the shia led government in december. six people died in a mudslide in a gold mining community in southern they could all be eighteen others have been injured in the incident triggered by several days of heavy rain the slide. blocked roads to the area that can now only be read. by having called. thousands of muslims have flooded the streets of the pakistani port city of karachi to mark the birth of the prophet muhammad celebrations or several processions merging into one came amid extreme security measures with tens of thousands of police on patrol leading paramilitary forces. barack obama has named the national security advisor as these next chief of staff denis mcdonough who has been described by obama as

a close and trusted friend to help the president for his latest iraq and afghanistan strategies the appointment marks a reshuffle the in the white house says washington prepares to tackle difficult issues such as gun violence immigration reform and the. russian lawmakers have passed the first reading of a bill which bans the promotion of homosexuality among children the legislature has already been dubbed by its opponents anti-gay and today provoked scuffles outside parliament lot as you know neal explains why the bill has sparked so much anger. scuffles broke out earlier this week between people who supported the bill others who saw it simply as a crackdown on their civil liberties you know that also came to a head just outside the state duma before the first reading was passed one activist one gay rights activist was assaulted at least twenty people on both sides were

also arrested while activists were eggs drawing up them through and over them the first reading of the failed task will be two more readings before the bill is passed to the upper house parliament and then becoming law when it is signed by president. so there is a lot at stake here feelings are running high but as you said it is only the first reading that has been passed the. morning is in half an hour cross talk is next. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent

from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but beck may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and you horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i know rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord beck no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for crying on camera doesn't suit me but if you're a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but

that's just my opinion. this is. a low in welcome to cross talk where things are considered on p. . lobo the israelis have voted the outcome shows an electorate clearly divided down the middle at the same time it appears the israelis might have voted for the status quo there is little interest in coming to a just peace with the palestinians and palestine nor does it seem israel is on course to change its behavior in stable hood so what exactly happened in this election. to crosstalk.